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Tweedledum and Tweedledee — are fictional characters in Lewis Carroll s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and in a nursery rhyme by an anonymous author. Their names may have originally come from one of the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and… … Wikipedia

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — Twee dle*dum and Twee dle*dee Two things practically alike; a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692 1793) in his satire On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

tweedledum and tweedledee — [twēd΄ l dum′ ən twēd΄ l dē′] n. [&LT; TWEEDLE + dum & dee, echoic of musical notes: first used of two 18th c. rival composers] 1. two persons or things so much alike as to be almost indistinguishable 2. [T and T ] two almost identical brothers… … English World dictionary

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — noun A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly. Some officers were starting to call Edendales two detective chief inspectors Tweedledum and Tweedledee, because they were rarely seen except when they were… … Wiktionary

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — Twee|dle|dum and Twee|dle|dee two characters in the book ↑Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. They are fat little men, who are both dressed in school uniform and look exactly like each other. Their names are often used to describe two… … Dictionary of contemporary English

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — TweeÂ·dleÂ·dum and TweeÂ·dleÂ·dee || â€štwiËdl dÊŒmÉ™nâ€štwiËdl diË two persons or things that are nearly identical and are hard to tell apart; characters in Lewis Carroll s works Alice s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass … English contemporary dictionary

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — Twee|dle|dum and Twee|dle|dee [ ,twidl,dʌm ən ,twidl di ] two people who are very much like each other in their behavior and looks … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — Twee•dle•dum and Twee•dle•dee [[t]ˌtwid lˈdʌm ən ˌtwid lˈdi[/t]] n. pl. two persons or things nominally different but practically the same • Etymology: 1715–25; humorous coinage, appar. first applied as nicknames to Italian composer Giovanni… … From formal English to slang

Tweedledum and Tweedledee — noun a pair of people or things that are virtually indistinguishable. Origin orig. names applied to the composers Bononcini and Handel, in a 1725 satire by John Byrom; later used for two identical characters in Lewis Carroll s Through the Looking … English new terms dictionary